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American Involvement In Vietnam, 1968 - 906 words
American Involvement In Vietnam, 1968. American
Involvement In Vietnam, 1968. Many people wonder
how the Americans managed to become involved in a
war 10,000 miles away from their native continent,
but the initial reasons for U.S. involvement in
Vietnam seemed logical and compelling to American
leaders. Following its success in World War II,
the United States faced the future with
confidence. From George Washington's perspective,
the threat to U.S. security and world peace was
communism emanating from the Soviet Union. Any
communist anywhere, at home or abroad was, by
definition, and enemy of the United States. With
the unsuccessful appeasement of fascist dictators
before World War II, the T ...
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Americas Inhumanity - 1,054 words
America's Inhumanity Americas Inhumanity The
greatest tragedy is war, but so long as there is
mankind, there will be war. -Jomini The Art of War
Military History 4/2/00 On March 16, 1968, Charlie
Company of the Americal Division moved into the
hamlet of My Lai and committed one of the most
brutal atrocities in the Vietnam War and American
history. However much their actions resulted from
inherent stresses of the war, their brutal
targeting of noncombatants was said to be an
exceptional deviation from orders. Some 500
civilians were killed and it was not until a year
later, with a letter from Ron Ridenhour, that the
Criminal Investigation Division of the US Army
checked the validity of the ac ...
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Cambodia - 1,983 words
Cambodia The Impact of the Past on the Present
Cambodia, then, like so many other nations in the
developing world, is an agricultural country, and,
in terms of the cash incomes of its people,
desperately poor. In the past, Cambodia was able
to earn foreign exchange to pay for imported goods
by selling agricultural surpluses-of rice and
corn, for example-or plant crops, such as pepper,
rubber, and cotton. Its normal patterns of trade
were broken up in the wars of the 1970's. When the
fighting died down, Cambodian trade became lively
again, but more informal, which benefited many
individual traders but deprived the government of
money it needed to pay for essential services,
like electricity, ...
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Child Labor - 1,523 words
Child Labor Child Labor In the past few years, a
great deal of attention has been drawn to the
global problem of child labor. Virtually everyone
is guilty of participating in this abusive
practice through the purchase of goods made in
across the globe, usually in poor, developing
nations. This issue has been around for a great
length of time but has come to the forefront
recently because of reports that link well known
American companies like Wal-Mart and Nike to the
exploitation of children. Prior to this media
attention, many Americans and other people in
developed nation were blind to the reality of the
oppressive conditions that are reality to many.
Child Labor has been in existence in d ...
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Equality: A Movement - 1,364 words
Equality: A Movement It was Friday June 27, 1969.
New York's crime syndicates are extorting large
sums of protection money from gay bars. Any who
can, or will, not pay are either persuaded or
closed down after a visit from NYCPD's Public
Morals Section, who enforce the Mafia's
stranglehold on the city's gay bars. The
detectives from the Public Morals Section have no
reason to believe that tonight's raid on the gay
Stonewall Inn will be anything but brief and
businesslike. They arrest two bartenders, three
drag queens, and a lesbian. The customers are
allowed to leave one-by-one. A crowd of these
customers quickly gathers outside the Stonewall
Inn. Cries of defiance and cheers begin to rise f ...
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Faderman Vs Epstein - 1,157 words
Faderman Vs. Epstein Homosexuality is a topic that
has been discussed and debated for many years.
There are several different viewpoints as to the
origin of homosexuality, and as to the way in
which homosexuals should be treated in the general
society. Two distinguished authors that discuss
homosexuality and it's relation to the surrounding
world are Steven Epstein and Lillian Faderman. In
Epstein's article Gay and Lesbian Movements in the
United States and in Faderman's book Odd Girls and
Twilight Lovers there are many distinguishing
characteristics between there styles of writing.
Although different in style both of the writings
prove to be useful in understanding the ways in
which the hom ...
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Free Willy Why We Should Free Captured Whales - 1,751 words
Free Willy! Why We Should Free Captured Whales
Many people have heard about Keiko, the killer
whale, who starred in the movie Free Willy. After
seeing the movie, audiences discovered that the
friendly whale in the movie was in a tank too
small and in bad health because of that and other
complications that come with being taken from its
natural habitat to a place where it can't meet
it's own needs. Soon a foundation was set u[ and
money started pouring in from children and their
schools to come up with a plan to one day free
Keiko. The tank/habitat cost $7.3 million to build
and $9 million for staff, veterinarian, care,
food, utilities and other costs for the first two
years alone (Oregon Coa ...
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History Of Vietnam - 1,738 words
History of Vietnam History of Vietnam Most humans
will always have a tendency to protect his own.
When the more fortunate notice a victim in any
situation, they'll help out those they deem worthy
of support, be it morally, financially, or
physically. As long as there is free blood flowing
in America's veins, she will always step in to
keep tyranny on a downfall. The whole Vietnam war
is a prime example of human nature not only at
it's best, but sadly, also at it's worst.
Oppression is perhaps the worst crime that man
will ever inflict upon himself. Despite a tyrant's
will, the fighting spirit of his followers never
dies out. Oppression has the power to turn an
average commoner into a force t ...
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Kurdistan - 1,185 words
Kurdistan Since the end of World War I, Kurdistan
has been administered by five sovereign states,
with the largest portions of the land being
respectively in Turkey (43%), Iran (31%), Iraq
(18%), Syria (6%) and the former Soviet Union
(2%). The PKK's origins can be traced back to
1974, when calan, in Ankara, led a small group of
radicals out of Revolutionary Youth
(DEV-GENЗ). The Kurdistan Workers Party,
"Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan" (PKK) was established
in 1978. Цcalan, the leader of the
organization took refuge in Syria, after 1980,
following the efficient struggle against such
organizations by the Turkish Security Forces. In
the annual report of the U.S. State Department
publi ...
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Macedonia: The Critical Five Years: 19451950 - 882 words
Macedonia: The Critical Five Years: 1945-1950 The
critical five years: 1945-1950 Nonetheless the
Slavo-Macedonians, with the backing of the
newlyformed Tito regime in Yugoslavia, kept up
their efforts. Just a few days after the Varkiza
agreement, Slavo-Macedonian emigres from Greece
formed, in Skopje, an Organisation named NOF
(National Liberation Front) and sent armed
guerrilla bands back to the border areas of Greek
Macedonia. The activities of these bands attracted
the criticism of the KKE, since it was in conflict
with the terms of the Varkiza agreement and gave
the government forces an excuse for applying
severe measures to suppress them. However, when
the Civil War began in 1946, the S ...
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Nicaragua: People And Way Of Life - 536 words
Nicaragua: People and Way of Life Most Nicaraguans
are mestizos. That is that they have white and
Indian ancestors. There way of life is somewhat
similar to that of Spanish Americans in other
Central American countries. Most people belong to
the Roman Catholic Church and speak Spanish. Most
of Nicaragua's people are poor farmers. Many of
those in the Pacific Region are peasants who work
on their own farms, cooperatives, state farms, or
large private farms. In warmer areas, agriculture
workers live in metal roofed houses. In the colder
areas of the Central Highlands, they live in adobe
houses with tile roofs. The only Indian groups in
Nicaragua that follow their own languages and
their old wa ...
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Over The Past Fifteen Years A Powerfully Charged Drama Has - 1,021 words
Over the past fifteen years a powerfully charged
drama has unfolded in New York's Broadway venues
and spread to the opera houses and ballet
productions of major cities across the country.
Its characters include angry college students,
aging rock stars, flamboyant B-movie queens,
society matrons, and sophisticated fashion
designers. You can't buy tickets for this
production, but you might catch a glimpse of it
while driving in Bethesda on particular Saturday
afternoons. If you're lucky, Compassion Over
Killing (COK), an animal rights civil disobedience
group, will be picketing Miller's Furs, their
enemy in the fight against fur. These impassioned
activists see the fur trade as nothing less th ...
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Political And Social Effects That Shaped The 60s Generation - 1,620 words
... main looters. The actions by Richard J.
Daley, were a sign of respect of King. Ironically,
a year before, Daley was against having King speak
in the city of Chicago. Kings following had fallen
off in the years leading up to his death. His
moment had passed. Since the triumph of his Slema
campaign, which climaxed in the 1965 Voting Rights
Act, he had turned to the urban poor, but his
strategy of nonviolence, national publicity, and
coalition-building seemed unavailing. Just a week
before his death, his hopes for a non violence
march in Memphis, in support of striking garbage
workers, had been dashed by the window-smashing of
a few dozen black teenagers. King had become a
hero without a s ...
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The Tet Offensive, Which Occurred On January 31, 1968, Proved To Be A Political - 1,380 words
The Tet Offensive, which occurred on January 31,
1968, proved to be a political and a psychological
victory for the Vietnamese communists. And,
although it only lasted for about one month, it
was one of Americas most notable battles that
taught the Americans and the Vietnamese valuable
lessons about life and war. The background of the
Tet-Offensive is very interesting, one hidden
within the conflict of the Vietnam War. While the
offensive was being planned, there were anti-war
demonstrations taking place in the U.S. against
the Vietnam War. Lyndon B. Johnson, in a close
election, won the primary over McCarthy who
happened to be against the war, and then went on
to running the country with fe ...
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The War In Vietnam - 1,984 words
The War in Vietnam The Vietnam War, the nation's
longest, cost fifty-eight thousand American lives.
Only the Civil War and the two world wars were
deadlier for Americans. During the decade of
direct U.S. military participation in Vietnam
beginning in 1964, the U.S Treasury spent over
$140 billion on the war, enough money to fund
urban renewal projects in every major American
city. Despite these enormous costs and their
accompanying public and private trauma for the
American people, the United States failed, for the
first time in its history, to achieve its stated
war aims. The goal was to preserve a separate,
independent, noncommunist government in South
Vietnam, but after April 1975, the co ...
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United Nations - 2,196 words
United Nations The United Nations is an
organization of sovereign nations not a world
government. It provides the machinery to help find
solutions to disputes or problems, and to deal
with virtually any matter of concern to
humanity.It does not legislate like a national
parliament. But in the meeting rooms and corridors
of the UN, representatives of almost all countries
of the world large and small, rich and poor, with
varying political views and social systems have a
voice and vote in shaping the policies of the
international community. The year 1995 marks the
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Organization.The UN
has six main organs, listed below. All are based
at UN Headquarters in New York, exc ...
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Us Bases In The Philippines - 1,649 words
... tourism projects. Holiday Inn, guest cottages
and a golf course are among the early tourist
amenities. Apart from these, construction of an
international airport has begun and part of it
will be open for daytime landing in a few months.
From a virtual wasteland four years ago, Clark has
also become a job center. More than 16,000 workers
have been employed, half of the 32,000 base
workers displaced in 1991. The Political Effects
of the U.S. Military in the Philippines All This
great economic revival seems to have been
downplayed by the political insecurity that the
base withdrawals brought. The termination of the
Military Base Agreement (MBA) devastated the
bilateral security ties with th ...
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Us Involvement In Nicaragua - 657 words
Us Involvement In Nicaragua Some might say that
Nicaragua has been merely a pawn in the US battle
against Soviet-Cuban Communist control in Latin
America. Relationships between the US and
Nicaragua go back to the Gold Rush and Cornelius
Vanderbilts attempts to expedite the travel
between the two coasts of the US. Vanderbilt
bought the rights to shuttle fortune-seekers
across Nicaragua to avoid their having to cross
the width of the United States or travel around
Cape Horn. Eventually, controversy among the
Nicaraguan people led to a civil war in 1853. The
US was further drawn into the conflict when the
left-wing army hired an American, William Walker,
to fight for them. Walker and his mercen ...
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Vietnam - 789 words
Vietnam Vietnam is a country 9000 miles away from
the United States. Yet America felt that its
national interest to protect the peace in south
Asia and stop communist was threatened strongly
enough to fight a war there. Therefore, American
considered that the establishment of the "Iron
Curtain" of Europe must be stopped to happen again
in Asia. Meanwhile, the communist take over of
China, the Korean War and the communist victory
over the French in Vietnam - all led many
Americans to fear that The communists were taking
over the world and America must dispatch force to
stop their expansion. At that time, most American
believed in the "Domino Theory", suggesting that
if one Asian country fell ...
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Vietnam - 1,795 words
Vietnam Believing that communist aggression in
South Vietnam could lead to takeover of South East
Asia, the United States slowly became more
involved in the conflict there during the years of
1954 through 1975. Prior to the War Following
World War II, there was a bloody 7 year struggle
between Communist Vietnamese and the French for
control of the land. A peace conference was
finally held in Geneva, Switzerland on July 1954
which determined that French rule would be ended
in Vietnam and that the country would be split at
the 17th parallel of latitude into North Vietnam,
with a Communist government, and South Vietnam,
with a republican government. Not long after, the
United States military a ...
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